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Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 71, Issue 1, Page 18-35, March 2025.Seachanging and the expansion of suburbia led to important changes in Australia's human geography during the second half of the twentieth century. However, the implications of domestic migration on electoral politics have received only limited study. The Central Coast of New South Wales was one place where these two patterns of movement converged and ...
Chris Beer
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Inequality in Public Provision of Healthcare: Do Fiscal Transfers Matter?
Journal of Public Affairs, Volume 24, Issue 4, November 2024.ABSTRACT In this paper, we investigate the inequality in the public provision of healthcare in India and assess whether states are converging over time. We locate the equalization of public provision within the framework of fiscal federalism. Departing from previous work, we gauge disparity in public provision by scrutinizing the provision in terms of ...
K. S. Harikrishnan +1 more
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Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2013 This paper analyzes the relationship between malapportionment and electoral bases of support for Brazilian senators. The conventional wisdom asserts that malapportionment contributes to the “politics of backwardness” – that it facilitates clientelism and
Taeko Hiroi, Pedro Neiva
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Bicameralism and Policy Responsiveness to Public Opinion
American Journal of Political Science, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 1089-1105, July 2024.Abstract Does the organization of the assembly affect whether governments deliver policy that reflects the public's changing preferences? Cross‐national analyses of public opinion and policy outputs for policies concerning welfare and immigration show that governments respond to shifts in public opinion in systems with a dominant chamber but not where ...
Lawrence Ezrow +2 more
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La desigualdad del voto en Argentina
Perfiles Latinoamericanos, 1999 Este trabajo reconoce la diferencia lógica y analítica del malapportionment (MAP)' respecto de la des proporcionalidad. Usualmente, ambos fenómenos son etiquetados bajo el erróneo concepto de desproporcionalidad, lo que impide analizar los vínculos ...
Diego Reynoso
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A characterization of two disproportionality and malapportionment indices : the Duncan and Duncan index and the Lijphart index [PDF]
, 2020 Disproportionality indices aim at measuring to what extent the composition of a parliament differs from the distribution of the votes among parties. Malapportionment indices measure to what extent the number of parliament seats attached to each district ...
Marchant, Thierry +2 more
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Geography of Electoral Districting or Gerrymandering and Malapportionment, Romanian‑style
Sfera Politicii, 2015 In 2008, Romania instituted an electoral system that uses proportional methods for distributing seats to political parties and uninominal constituencies for assigning parliamentary seats to candidates.
Aurelian Giugăl
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Malapportionment of Representation in the National Diet
Law and Contemporary Problems, 1990 Malapportionment of Diet seats is one of the most serious problems confronting contemporary Japan. After World War II, there was a large-scale population shift from rural to urban areas in Japan, as in other industrialized countries. However, the postwar statutes for apportionment of Diet members have not been fully revised to reflect this shift.
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Revista Española de Ciencia Política, 2013 Este trabajo explora las causas de la desproporcionalidad —la diferencia entre el porcentaje de escaños y elporcentaje de votos obtenidos por un partido— en 18 países de América Latina, evaluando el efecto de cuatrovariables explicativas.
Kenneth Bunker, Patricio Navia
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Legislative Malapportionment and the Politicization of Germany’s Intergovernmental Transfer System [PDF]
Legislative bargaining theory suggests that fiscal transfers among member states of a federation are determined to a substantial degree by political bargaining powers.
Friedrich Schneider +2 more
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